Instant Approval For 100K Points Plus A Free Night

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The $75 annual fee Hilton Honors™ Surpass® Card from American Expressis offering 100,000 Hilton Honors bonus points after spending $3,000 in purchases within the first three months; you also get a free weekend night valid at any Hilton Honors hotel on your first cardmember anniversary

For a no annual fee card, the 80,000 point sign-up bonus is great, though the card that interests me most is the Surpass Card, given that it offers 100,000 points plus a free weekend night on the first account anniversary.

Even if you don’t value the free night on the account anniversary that much (which you should — it’s worth up to 95,000 points), I think it’s worth going for the Surpass over the no annual fee card, since the incremental 20,000 points should be worth more the $75 annual fee.

So while I couldn’t apply for the card myself, Ford did apply for the Hilton Honors™ Surpass® Card from American Express. I love how easy it is to apply online for an American Express credit card as an existing member, since you just log-in, and then almost all the information is pre-populated. The application literally takes less than a minute.

Best of all, instant approvals are common, and Ford got an instant approval on his application.

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I just applied for the AmEX SPG card. It it worth it to apply for either one of these also, assuming no issues with meeting the minimum spend limit? Can the point and free night be combined across cards?

@ chapman — Hmmm, have you tried a different browser maybe? This is a publicly available offer, so it’s not targeted, or anything. You should absolutely be eligible for it. I just pulled it up and the offer still looks the same to me.

I’m sort of lost, you mention that the free night is more important than free breakfast. I find that the Free night is nice, however, if you stay at Hiltons enough the free breakfast is a very nice perk, it can save roughly $70-90 for a weekend getaway of if you are on vacation and spending a week or longer the free breakfast add’s a very nice perk with the CC.

@ Tony — Sorry, did I mention that? Can’t find where I said that, as it’s certainly not my intention. The free night is a GREAT perk for signing up for the card and keeping it for a year, but long term Hilton Honors Gold status is worth quite a bit.

I have had this card in the past and downgraded to the no annual fee card yet I was able to get the upgrade offer for the 100,000 points for spending $3,000 but not the free anniversary night offer. Since I have gotten the bonus on this card before, I was surprised to be approved.

I received an mail offer pre-approval for the Citi AAdvantage card. When I applied through the invitation link I was denied, not pending but denied. Then a couple days later I received an email saying that Citi could not process my application and that I needed to call in. They basically confirmed my cell phone number and approved me for the card.

So I guess something as small as verifying a phone number can make applications go pending approval.

Have you done a comparison on which card is better: Hilton Surpass card with this bonus or the Citi Hilton Reserve with 2 free weekend nights?

I want to sign up for one of these cards and will likely keep one of them long term because of the gold status perk, but would appreciate your insight on which to get.

Maybe apply first to Surpass card, redeem the free night at 1 year anniversary, then cancel and sign up for Reserve later and keep that long term since you stand to accumulate a free night with 10k in spend for an extra $20 annual fee?

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